The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-16
Matters Grave and Gay in Which Our
Fair Readers Take IN Especial
Interest.
A Couple OF Columns Prepared Solely
for Their Instruction and
EdillcatiOn.

This young lady is hated and jacket
ed for November weather, and whether
the day is chilly or balmy she is pretty
sure to be comfortable in hat that so
happily combines style with quietude,
and a jacket which fits her figure
charmingly. In the choice of millinery
a belle has responsibility put upon
her which the beau never feels. A
mans taste in head covering cannot
fashionsbly range further than between
tile and derby, but q woman encoun-
ters infinite variety, and she must
study her own face quite as closely as
the milliner's offerings il she would
appear at her best. White hats are
going to be winter novelty, and this
example has q happy medium between
the over picturesque and the insignifi-
cant. The jacket is jaunty, as you see,
with its big checks, its darker collar,
lapels, and cuffs, and its symmetrical
shape. That toilet will do handsomely
for outright wintry weather, unless the
wearer chooses to sacrifice warm wad-
ding for the sake of slenderness, in
which case she must glow with the
satisfaction that comes to consciously
well-dresSed women.
Much breezier costumes are seen on
the occasional Indian summer days,
when wraps can be discarded without a
certainty of pneumonia. Two cases of
this sort are drawn from life in the Sec
ond picture, and, if they are not
deemed suitable in this climate for No
vember wear out of doors, they may be
taken as excellent models for effective
simplicity in house dresses. For cold
weather the newest things are wraps
fitted to the waist and reaching to the
ground. They are made of what might
be objected to as rather loud material
in stripes, checks, and figures, but the
fabric is usually costly enough to re-
deem the pattern. These garments
have sleeves for actual as well as for
apparent comfort, and the latter is
luxur.ously increased by borderings of
fur.
A new thing has come out in over
coats for men. 1t is q wonderful mod
ificstion, as usual, of an old form, but
it has decided effect of it's own by
design, and will mark this season in q
peculiar way. The new overcoat re-
ferred to is development of what is
known as a "box-coat." 1t does not
bear any striking resemblance to the
coats that the cabmen wear as they sit
upon the box and drive their employ
ers to and from their offices, but, in
general contour. it slightly resembles
it. The box-coat generally appears as
q garment that reaches about to the
knee and is not fitted closely to the
form. The development of this coat
at this time of the year is perfectly in
the line with the prevailing modes in
other garments. For three or four
seasons past, mems trousers have been
getting gradually larger and larger
until a whip-cord crease has to be
ironed into them, in order to keep them
within mile of the shape of the legs
they are expected to fit. That is, the
tendency has been to depart from the
lines of the human form divine, and to
give to it form distinctively
artificial. The box-coat, therefore,
hangs from beneath the shoulders
to the bottom of the garment in one
straight, unbroken line and is about as
ungainly a garment as one can well i'm
agine for an overcoat. The overcoats
for the past three or four years have
been fitted to the person. -Four years
ago, for instance. the fashionable over
coat was so designed that it followed
the lines of the waist, almost as closely